Top 34 Quotes by Salvador Dali

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.